195 points

Let’s blame Joe so Kamala can run again.

Not fooling me, DNC. I smell what you’re cooking.

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75 points

I want to tell myself that there’s no way in hell they would let this happen, let alone make it happen.

Then I remember it’s the DNC.

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44 points

It’s not like they colluded to kneecap Bernie’s campaign. Wait…

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Twice.

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28 points

Kamala or Buttigeig, you can bet on it.

Seriously, go to Vegas. At least you’ll make money on the end of the world.

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20 points

Buttigeig is likely going to run given that he is giving up his chance at a Senate seat.

I feel like Walz is going to run as well. He’s been showing up in national media a lot and seems to be becoming the face of the opposition.

Newsom seems like he’s going to run as well, but he’s been making terrible choices recently.

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I’d bet they’ll try to run Blinken or Shapiro. Harris cant bring in campaign donations, and donations are all the DNC cares about.

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2 points

I don’t think this is even close to possible. She has removed herself from public view for a reason. On a personal level, she’s done. If she had any intentions to run for any kind of office, she would have emerged by now as an opposition leader.

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22 points

She’s free to run again, but this time she has to win the primary. And that’s unlikely. It’s rare in modern times for someone to lose a Presidential election and get another shot at it, Nixon and Trump are the only two in over a hundred years.

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28 points

You seem to forget what they did to sanders. If they want a specific candidate they will make sure they win.

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2 points

Also Adlai Stevenson in the 50s although he lost both times.

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16 points

Same reaction here, and the DNC is just dumb enough to do it.

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Well, there probably won’t be any more elections, so there’s that.

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4 points

Yeah, I bet we won’t even have mid terms in 2 years

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2 points

Nah, I think we should run Biden one more time. Surely, it’ll be different this time! /s

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127 points

To be honest, this is just a signal that she probably wouldn’t have been a good leader. Better than Trump, sure, but that bar is so low it’s a tripping hazard.

She should have told Biden to pound sand after locking up the nomination.

But we should verify the claim before passing judgement.

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42 points

Honestly, her campaign already signaled that. This, if true, just reinforces it. It also reinforces that Biden was a bad leader, which he was.

Obligatory: I voted for Harris and Biden and dems down ticket every election since I’ve been old enough to vote.

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Obligatory: I voted for Harris and Biden and dems down ticket every election since I’ve been old enough to vote.

Man I am getting sick of needing to say this ahead of time/to anyone who goes “well if you criticized our candidates of their serious and actual issues, you must be a Republican!”

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7 points

Definitely. And as soon as you say something leftist you’re accused of not voting or “throwing away your vote” so you can’t complain. Like, I get it. “Have the day you voted for” etc, but libs are pointing fingers at the wrong people. I’ve said it like a million times before, but sooo many of my leftist friends reluctantly voted Kamala when they were vehemently opposed to her stance on Palestine and now feel like they sold out for nothing. Like, at least if they hadn’t voted they could say they stood for something. Now they don’t even have a high horse to ride into the apocalypse on. The way libs will break your spirit is wild. They have more energy to fight leftists than republicans.

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3 points

It’s refreshingly less common here than reddit. I am so happy to find comrades in “i voted for dems but it was under duress” here.

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1 point

I’m still content that I left my vote for president blank. No to all genociders regardless of party-- no exceptions. Maybe the DNC will learn not to ever try that nonsense in an election again if they know they can’t possibly win doing it. Or maybe this country will tear itself apart, but if the price of keeping it together is engaging in the mass murder of innocents, then this system of government will have to end and restart in some different form.

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4 points

Blaming Biden makes sense. Blame the problems on the actual person in charge. Harris wasn’t in charge, she should’ve let Biden take all of the failures of the term, regardless of her position at the time

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15 points

No democrat president has been “in charge” in 50+ years.

The owners of the DNC have been in charge.

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As far as I’m aware, Biden controlled most of the campaign money at least initially. either way it’s still a pretty weak excuse for Harris.

Biden really fucked us in so many ways though, I’m happy to blame him for losing the election as well. I mean he was the one who thought gaslighting us about the economy was a winning move, he put Harris in a terrible position to begin with. Not to mention deciding to run again in the first place, appointing a Trump collaborator as AF, refusing to exercise his power, etc etc

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If I was kamala I would have slammed joe. For the good of the country, of course.

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I think the best move would have been a substantial but firm and respectful break was the way to go forward.

If Kamala pushes back too hard against Joe, the establishment will question whether she grateful for his support and the opportunity he provided.

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76 points

It’s ridiculous to think that Harris couldn’t have done what she wanted. Once you’re named the nominee, that’s it. They’re not going to back out.

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57 points

If she was unwilling to break from him because of his wishes, even if she was theoretically able, that speaks volumes about her as a leader.

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17 points

If she runs again, we lose again.

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3 points

IF there is another election, HitlerPig will get 98% of the vote, and he’ll use his “popularity” with the American voters to justify defying the Constitutional prohibition against a 3rd term.

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2 points

Yep. It says she lacks critical leadership qualities.

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14 points

I mean, that was the line from centrists anytime someone wanted any hope from harris that she might be less of a lapdog for netanyahu than biden was.

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9 points

The problem was her campaign was largely run by Biden’s people. He clearly was interfering with her campaign and she kept trying to make the most of it.

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4 points

Did she ever say that publicly? No. So she did not make the most of it.

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“We’ve also means tested the flashlights, so those who recall the time before the great darkness get less of the flashlights, and anyone who has flashlights that explode will be required to have a daily check of their pupils to ensure they’ve been good at not looking at the daylight.”

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55 points

Honestly this behavior is going to keep getting highlighted from Biden because he was an absolute stubborn idiot. He had polling showing him losing to Trump with over 400 electoral votes for MONTHS before dropping out. He blamed his family for staying in as long as he did, obviously it was him or what was left of him.

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History will not look kindly on Biden for fucking over his one job of stopping Trump. Didn’t arrest him, didn’t defeat him, didn’t stop most of the Jan 6 protestors, didn’t go after the enablers of his actions, didn’t really stop anything Trump did to avoid debt and jail and we ended up with him for Round 2, Even Worse This Time.

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29 points

100% agreement. He should have arrested Agent Krasnov and his henchmen on the first day of his presidency, and detained them in isolation without bail or access to the media, until their trials were resolved. If he had done that, Krasnov and his Gang would be in prison right now, instead of the White House.

Instead Biden appointed a weakass Republican as his AG who gave him a 2 year head start to run out the clock.

The Dems had the perfect chance to defend our country from the MAGA scourge, but they totally abdicated their responsibility. It will be 100 times harder to take it back now, and I don’t see it happening without violence.

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i felt while he did introduce some good policies, hes much more conservative than obama. dint replace dejoy, and added his supporters in the BOG? allowed to have trump have all the air-time for 4 years straight? im guessing they needed biden to draw the conservative leaning voters that wernt entirely maga? not to mention garland who is a gop SHILL TOO.

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11 points

Look at democrats now. Still doing absolutely nothing. Even if they won they still wouldn’t have stopped Trump or Musk. They’d probably just stand aside if there was another Jan 6.

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7 points

He blamed his family for staying in as long as he did

Real ted cruz moment, that.

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more like the megadonors were starting to steer away from biden and harris.

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